This scammer tells me I have won a “CONSOLATION PRIZE”. I think he might need to learn to use a dictionary to find out what a consolation prize really is. I suppose it doesn’t really matter as I haven’t won anything – neither have you.

As I’ve said many times, you can’t win a lottery or prize draw that you haven’t entered and no-one ever runs random email draws. Every single one of them is a scam – with a scammer hoping you will start to send them your money.

We wish to congratulate you once again on this note, for being part of our winners selected this year. This promotion was set-up to encourage the active users of the Google search engine and the Google ancillary services. Hence we do believe with your winning prize, you will continue to be active and patronage to the Google search engine. Google is now the biggest search engine Worldwide and in an effort to make sure that it remains the most widely used search engine, we ran an online e-mail beta test which your email address won 950,000.00 GBP {Nine Hundred and Fifty Thousand Great British Pounds Sterling}.

A winning Cheque will be issued in your name by Google Promotion Board, and also a certificate of prize claims will be sent along side your winning Cheque. In your best interest to avoid mix up of numbers and names of any kind, we request that you keep the entire details of your award strictly from public notice until the process of transferring your claims has been completed, and your funds remitted to your account. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming or unscrupulous acts by participants / non participants of this program. Kindly fill-in the verification and fund release form below.